Infographic of the Day: Humanitarian Relief’s Scary Funding Gap Mark Leon Goldberg June 17, 2015The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs released it's mid-year report of the response to humanitarian emergencies around the world. Taken together, these graphics do an excellent job of telling the story of a humanitarian system under enormo...
Disaster Relief 2.0: Humanitarian Information, Year Zero? Disaster Relief 2.0 April 11, 2011The Disaster Relief 2.0 Blog Series provides a public forum for people from both the humanitarian and volunteer and technical communities to discuss ideas in this report and the future of disaster relief.
Disaster Relief 2.0 Mark Leon Goldberg December 3, 2010A new partnership between the Harvard Humanitarian Project, the UN Foundation, the Vodafone Foundation and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is formed to investigate the role that grassroots technology groups played in the Haiti earthquake response.
Tweeting Mount Merapi: A new Kind of Disaster Response Alanna Shaikh, MPH November 22, 2010An Indonesian community near the erupting Mount Merapi volcano is using Twitter in a new way to help manage a disaster response.
Hurricane Tomas Makes Landfall. Worst is Yet to Come Mark Leon Goldberg November 5, 2010According to the latest projections from NOAA, the storm should pass in about six hours or so. In the meantime, storm surges, an overflowing river, and pounding rain are wreaking the kind of havoc that we've been expecting all week.
Start Paying Attention Now: Hurricane Tomas Is Going to be a Major, Major Disaster for Haiti Mark Leon Goldberg November 4, 2010On Friday, we will find out what happens when a hurricane pounds a country in which 1.3 million people live in tents. Between the cholera epidemic, the earthquake and the storm, aid workers, government, the Haitian people are struggling to cope with three concurrent humanitarian emergencies.
Tomas May Make a “Direct Hit” On Port Au Prince, Haiti Mark Leon Goldberg November 3, 2010Tomas is teetering between hurricane, tropical storm and tropical depression status. No matter what the prefix, Haiti is in the direct path of what is shaping up to be a very violent storm.
Two Thirds of Benin Under Water Mark Leon Goldberg October 20, 2010Severe flooding hits Benin, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria. Welcome to the next big humanitarian crisis. But after Hait and Pakistan, will there be enough money for emergency relief for the region?
Can the International Community Take the Wind out of the Sails of Al Qaeda Propoganda? Mark Leon Goldberg October 1, 2010It is clear that the terrorist organization is seeking to use the Pakistan floods to its advantage. What is less clear is whether or not the international community is willing to counter al Qaeda's propaganda by fully funding Pakistan flood relief.
